The Voice of the Voiceless (sic) Campaign: Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right

Right wing website The College Fix misses the point in an article published last Friday (6/20).

The assumption on the part of Chris Doyle and author Claire Healey seems to be that incorrect information provided by college counseling or resource centers should lead to the addition of more incorrect information at those same centers. In other words, since LGBT centers say some things that might be inaccurate or can’t be proven, ex-gay supporters should be allowed to do the same thing.

This is not “right-minded” but rather wrong-headed.

Doyle can’t offer any evidence for his claims, and as his campaign shows, his group is hardly voiceless.

Conservatives should not react in a knee jerk fashion against what seems like viewpoint discrimination to simply offer what seems to be the opposite position (e.g., gay groups say gays can’t change, conservative groups then should support the notion that gays can change). What seems like the opposite position of the position you don’t like is not of necessity the correct one. In this case, it is true that research has not found a consensus around the causes of homosexuality. However, that does not mean that Doyle’s version of weak fathering and overbearing mothering is correct. In fact, that model doesn’t have support in research. There are many good empirical reasons to question that model for most gays. Doyle’s therapy approach is based on that causal model which, in addition to the absence of any empirical support, opens it up to skepticism.

Two wrongs don’t create a “right-minded” stance and is a loser as a conservative position.

Chris Doyle’s mentor Richard Cohen in action:

Sorry, can’t imagine a college promoting this anti-science brand of ex-gay therapy but that is what Doyle’s IHF is known for.